Service providers should not enter into pacts that discriminate on content, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said Tuesday in the recommendations it released on net neutrality.

The licensing terms should be amplified to provide explicit restrictions on any sort of discrimination in Internet access based on the content being accessed, the protocol being used or the user equipment being deployed, an official release by Trai said.

Trai's recommendations defined content as including "all content, applications, services and any other data, including its end-point information, that can be accessed or transmitted over the Internet".